The First English novelists : essays in understanding : honoring the retirement of Percy G. Adams / edited by J.M. Armistead
1986, 2nd printing. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443586
ISBN: 0870494686
Physical description: xxxiii, 295 pages ; 24 cm. Series: Tennessee studies in literature ; 29. Contents: For Percy G. Adams / Donald Kay -- Introduction /James E. Gill -- Popular narrative in the early eighteenth century : formats and formulas / John Richetti -- Defoe and the geography of the mind / Paula R. Bachscheider -- Saying "no", saying "yes" : the novels of Samuel Richardson / Margaret A. Doody -- Fielding : the comic reality of fiction / Sheridan Baker -- Smollett's art : the novel as "picture" / Jerry C. Beasley -- Structure, language, experience in the novels of Laurence Sterne / Howard Anderson -- Jane Austen's accommodations / Alistair M. Duckworth -- Books about the early English novel : a survey and a list / Jack D. Durant. Subjects: Adams, Percy G. Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Criticism and interpretation. English fiction 18th century History and criticism.
Price: €12.95